We Need to Nip This In The Bud By Demanding This Guy's Resignation - Or Recall

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I was having a discussion with an online friend over this issue, and he had the following to say:
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"We strongly disagree on this. Conservatives always demonize black people. Blacks are illegitimate in the eyes of Conservatives. Martin Luther King Jr was a Communist. President Obama is not an American citizen and therefore isn't [in] office illegally. Stop and Frisk was applied to all young black males because every black male was a threat. Black activists stuck with Martin Luther King Jr.and the Civil Rights Act passed in Congress. President Barack Obama was elected twice. Given the Republican Presidential it is likely that The President could be elected for a third term. Activists took down Stop and Frisk. There is a push to have police wear cameras because the public no longer trusts the police. Blacks are always under attack and have always fought back.
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"Eric, no one knows this nitwit sheriff and his credentials are dust when compared to police organizations and elected officials working to end mass incarceration. The sheriff you fear so much may be a hero to wingnuts, but is dismissed by others. Herman Cain and Ben Carson carry the message that blacks should be feared. Both have no clout beyond the wingnuts. I have no idea why you focus on an impotent idiot. NEVER underestimate the strength of Black people. Always bet on Black."
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In response, I have to say the following:
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RM, I've never doubted the strength or intelligence of Black people - it's our focus that I'm concerned about. And while I love your optimism, we haven't been doing so well so far. If we were, a group called "Black Lives Matter" wouldn't be necessary.

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The Washington Times has reported Black, Milwaukee Sheriff, David Clarke, as saying, “Before long, Black Lies [sic] Matter will join forces with ISIS to [bring] down our legal constituted republic. You heard it first here. . . . I have been right on every call I have made about these subversives. I will be right again." (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/28/david-clarke-black-milwaukee-sheriff-black-lives-m/)

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You didn't see this coming, RM. but I did. As I told you, we can't out-scream the establish, because they control the the media; we can't out fight the establishment, because they control the military and arms industry; so the only way that we can deal with the White elitists establishment is to out-think them - or at the very least, not allow them to out-think us, and Black Lives Matter - and the Black community as a whole - is allowing them to do just that.

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But I see why I can't through to you. There are many concepts that you don't seem to get, or at least, accept. A Black Sheriff has credibility among many Americans, and especially conservative wingnuts, because he's saying exactly what they want to hear. So we can't afford the luxury of just writing this man off as another clueless Black man with a big mouth. This guy has credible credentials. Research him. This could very well be the beginning of a right-wing establishment attempt to demonize Black people as terrorist sympathizers in order to mount a campaign against all of us. That's exactly what they did to Muslims and the people of Iraq before they went in and killed and/or imprisoned a million of them. I predicted that this could happen in our earlier discussion when I asked the question, was it possible that BLM had been infiltrated by the Koch brothers. That's a classic "cointelpro" tactic from the sixties. That's how they brought down the civil rights movement.

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Here's how it works. First, the establish infiltrates a group with Judas goats who seem to be super-militant in pursuit of "the cause." Then they use those Judas goats to convince the people within the group that the more level-headed people in the group are weak and ineffectual, so they should follow them. Thereafter, they start committing acts that will turn off the American people - like snatching microphones during events, and other stupid and seemingly thoughtless acts. That allows the establishment to demonize the group and paint their intentions in any way they like. And now they're extending the activities of the group to Black people in general by conflating the name of the group with the Black population as a whole - after all, what Black person doesn't believe that Black lives matter?

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That's a tactic that's been being used since the very beginning of this nation and before. We must never forget how they painted the Native Americans as "savages" and wiped them out for simply fighting for their rights. And now you're saying this sheriff is just a clueless Black man with a big mouth!!!? You're being incredibly naive and dismissive of a history that's been repeated for centuries.

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So with this final attempt to get through to you, I'm going to end this discussion, because I feel like I'm trying to teach calculus to a person who hasn't learned addition and subtraction. And I don't mean that in a disparaging way. I think you're a very intelligent person in many ways, but in this case, as I said before, you're betraying a propensity for being incredibly naive. I can understand your wanting to defend BLM, but never defend stupidity, because their could be an underlying motive for it.

"Many insightful Black people recognize the truth in what I'm saying, but our collective response to it is lackadaisical, indifferent, and completely inept. Just going after one bad cop after he's killed a Black child, and snatching microphones from like-minded people in order to grandstand on stage does absolutely nothing to correct the problem we face.What good has that done? Black people are still being slaughtered on the street, and their personal lives are still being made miserable in their homes, on their jobs, and in the courts. All we're doing with such behavior is showing the powers that be what pushovers we are. We've got to go after the system that spawned and protects that bad cop AS A WHOLE - and in order to do that we're going to have to organize our community, become serious and mature adults with an eye toward the future, and stop giving priority to Beyonce swinging her butt. But currently, we're allowing the social manipulators to keep us completely distracted while they're picking us off one at a time with complete impunity, and as they become more bold, they're going to eventually start coming after us as a group, and that day may be sooner than you think."

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Now we have this Black Sheriff beginning to demonize Black people, and not just suggesting, but INSISTING that Black people are budding terrorists and a threat to America - and isn't it interesting that they found a Black sheriff? It makes the claim seem a lot more credible, doesn't it? It might even suggest to some that as a Black person himself, he might have some inside information. And isn't it a coincident that he's a rabid, Allen West-like conservative, one of those Black bligots (sic) that the conservatives love to trot out to say the things that they can't say themselves without revealing their bigotry? And do you think it's a coincident that this idiot's charge is being blared with banners all across conservative media? They're trying to see if the charge can get some traction. If it does, Black people are in trouble, and our lives truly WON'T matter then. So we need to come down on this guy, with both feet.

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This is what it means to allow ourselves to be out-thought by the establishment. We're just sitting on our hands while they've trotted out a BLACK man starting to propagate the position that Black people are a terrorist threat to America. How long do you think it's going to be before they start rounding us up, en masse? They're laying the foundation for it as we speak. Just think about the seriousness of that allegation. They're charging that Black people are going to become a part of ISIS!!! That's the most feared and hated terrorist group in the world. The mere suspicion of that will allow them to suspend the Constitution, round us up, and imprison us without any kind of due process or trial - ask any of the innocent people in Guantanamo.

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Again, please don't think it can't happen here, because every since the Bush/Cheney administration the United States has been becoming an increasingly more fascist state, and now that the demographics are against the GOP, they're becoming ever more reckless, dangerous, and oblivious to democracy. The fact that they've already corrupted the Supreme Court, given the heads of foreign corporations more influence over our political system than American citizens in "Citizens United," and they're trying to reverse the Voter's Rights Act should speak volumes, even to the very most politically naive.

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The United States advocated executing people during the Nuremberg trials for doing far less than Bush and Cheney. And did you ever think you'd see the United States condone torture, or the Vice President the United States outing one of our own CIA agents, or 47 U.S. Senators singing a treasonous letter in an attempt to disrupt an American foreign policy initiative in order to promote the interest of a foreign power? I don't think so.

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So the United States is currently in a very dangerous downhill slide. Republican president, Ike Eisenhower, would have summarily executed people for committing any one of the offenses listed above, so if a fascist-leaning Republican is elected President in the 2016 election, rounding up Black people en masse wouldn't be nothing in the current political environment. Thus, every Black preacher, teacher, journalist, and community activist in America should be all over this, because as long as a Black man can get rich by claiming to take pride in being a gangster, and calling the very womb of our culture bitches and hoes,why shouldn't America believe we're capable of terrorism?

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Wake up, Black people. It's time to take off our party hats and look at what's going on around us.

Monday, October 26, 2015

I'm going to be addressing the issue of Black injustice in a series of articles with specific examples of how this White supremacist establishment not only slaughter innocent Black people on the street, but also routinely victimize the average Black, minority, and working class person in their daily lives..I referred to this system as the "White supremacist establishment," but that's a misnomer. I should refer to it as the White ELITIST establish, because the social manipulators who control this system don't care any more about poor and working class White people than they do Blacks and minorities. Was it only Black people whose jobs were shipped out of the country, or who lost their homes during the 2008 housing crisis? I don't think so. We're in a class war. They only give White people the IMPRESSION that they're special, and then throw a few perks their way in order to factionalize us and keep us at one another's throats. The reason for that is social division is the establishment's most potent weapon against America's working class. So it is essential that the working class people of this country aside our petty differences and come together to protect our way of life. .The problem in the Black community is the most severe, however, and it's partially our fault. We wait around until the brains of one our kids are blown out before we start jumping up and down. That's tantamount to coming across poison oak and simply cutting off the leaves instead of pulling it out by the roots. The Black community has got to become PROACTIVE in the fight against injustice. We've got to organize in our churches and community, educate ourselves, and join with others to form a working-class coalition .The murder and abuse of Black people by bad cops only to have their atrocious actions declared justified by the courts is just the leaves of a political system that is corrupt and indifferent toward Black, minority, and working class people down to its roots. So if we truly believe that Black lives matter, the atrocities being committed by the establishment must be snatched out by its root. We can't just wait around until AFTER a Black life is taken to demonstrate and voice our outrage, we've got to take off our party hats, turn off BET, and begin to reform the infrastructure of our community BEFORE these atrocities take place. .Jumping up and down once one of our kids has been murdered, or one of our women has been lynched for smoking a cigarette in her own car is meaningless - that doesn't help either the dead kid, or the woman, and it doesn't prevent the next kid or Black woman from being senselessly murdered. We've got to come together in the Black community and develop a political clout that's formidable enough where the last thing a cop hears before he goes out on the street is, "Whatever you do, don't upset the Black community." .That's the way the Jews have it, and so can we. When was the last time you heard of a 12 year-old Jewish kid being murdered by the police? Never - and that's in spite of the fact that this bigoted power structure is just as anti-semitic toward Jews as it is racist toward Blacks (well, almost). But the Jews have developed the cultural resources to fight back. They learned a very powerful lesson during the holocaust, and if the Black community doesn't wake up from our "party hardy" attitude, and our delusion that "It can't happen here," we're just one conservative lunatic away from repeating the Jewish experience - and we have a clown bus full of conservative lunatics running in the 2016 election. What's currentl, and routinely, happening to Black people at the hands of bad cops on the street, and the tepid response of the nation's judicial system clearly demonstrates that the Black holocaust has already begun. So wake up, people!.Many insightful Black people recognize the truth in what I'm saying, but our collective response to it is lackadaisical, indifferent, and completely inept. Just going after one bad cop after he's killed a Black child, and snatching microphones from people in order to grandstand on stage does absolutely nothing to correct the problem we face.What good has that done? Black people are still being slaughtered on the street, and their personal lives are still being made miserable in their homes, on their jobs, and in the courts. All we're doing with such behavior is showing the powers that be what pushovers we are. We've got to go after the system that spawned and protects that bad cop AS A WHOLE - and in order to do that we're going to have organize our community, become serious and mature adults with an eye toward the future, and stop giving priority to Beyonce swinging her butt. But currently, we're allowing the social manipulators to keep us completely distracted while they're picking us off one at a time with complete impunity, and as they become more bold, they're going to eventually start coming after us as a group, and that day may be sooner than you think. .

BLACK, MINORITY, AND WORKING CLASS LIVES DO MATTER:

THE RITA EDMOND STORY

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Rita Edmond has lived at the same location for 24 years. She's the only Black tenant in the complex, but in spite of that fact, the first 21 years of her tenancy was uneventful. Then the former manager of the complex died and management was taken over by Ritz properties, Inc. That's when everything began to rapidly change. First . . . (MORE TO COME).

Thursday, October 15, 2015

For the first time in over 20 years I've been offline for over a week and a half. One of the reasons for that (other than family issues that I had to come terms with) is I've been agonizing over my good friend and road dawg, Rita Edmond's, pending departure for Russia. It's not like she's never left the country before, she's been all over Europe. But in today's highly unstable political climate, and with the United States and Russia standing, literally, eyeball-to-eyeball in a proxy war in Syria, Rita being in the middle of all of that has been all I can think of. I feel like she's being deployed - and on a more personal note, who am I going to argue with for the next three weeks? She's assured me that she's internationalized her phone connection, but somehow, it's just not the same.
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Rita's leaving for Russia today to do a series of concerts and jazz festivals across the country. If I had more heart I would have liked to have gone with her, but the fact is, I don't like leaving the United States - and especially in the current political environment. Thanks to the machinations of George Bush and Dick Cheney Americans are far from the most beloved people on the planet, so I like knowing my White folks, or at the very least, being able to understand what they're talking about. Just call me paranoid, but I think that's understandable. After all, I'm an African American male, so I have my neighbor check my tail lights before I drive to the liquor store, even in this country - in fact, especially in this country. But at least here I have some idea of what I'm dealing with. But in RUSSIA, where they don't even like American White folks, and where I don't understand the language so I wouldn't recognize the word "lynch" when I heard it (!!!?), I don't think so. If something did go down I wouldn't even know what direction to run - and with my luck, I'd probably end up in the Russian equivalent of Alabama.

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But even if I wanted to go, and I am a musician, I'm not of the world-class caliber of a Rita Edmond, so the Russians might not understand me. Now, if I was of the highly polished, conservatory-trained school of a Dale Fielder or Ricky Woodard, that might fly, but while I know music very well, I'm of the what-counts-is feeling-and-passion school of jazz, which granted, is a very legitimate tradition. But the only problem with that tradition is, occasionally the only one who feels your passion is you. So if I have a bad day, the Russians might confuse me with a CIA spy trying to pose as a musician and throw me in one of their gulags.
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But there's no chance of that happening to Rita Edmond, because as I pointed out in my article Presenting Ms. Rita Edmond - The Contemporary Face of True Jazz Royalty, "Ms. Edmond moves between sultry sophistication, hard driving swing, and childlike innocence without any effort at all. There are many great singers out there, but from the very first bar of anything Rita does, she clearly distinguishes herself as one of those rare individuals who was born to do exactly what she’s doing, and nothing else. She swings with the effortless grace of a Sliver Shadow cruisin' down Pacific Coast Highway, and her ballads are lush with sultry passion, personal depth, and individuality." So the only thing I'm worried about is once the Russians hear her, they may not want to let here come back home.

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So Rita, you'll be over there near Copenhagen, Denmark where they treat jazz people like rock stars (that's why Dexter Gordon, Bud Powell, and many others transplanted themselves over there), but even if they offer you a king's ransom to stay, you have people here who love you enough to make anything they can offer pale in comparison.
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And one other thing, Rita. Don't forget to tell 'em I taught you everything you know. Naw, on second thought, don't do that. I'll wait until your current CD comes out. Then I can tell that lie to the world at the Grammys.

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Have a good and safe trip, give our regards to the Russian people, and show 'em how we do it, baby.

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Eric L. Wattree is a writer, poet, and musician, born in Los Angeles. He’s been a columnist for The Los Angeles Sentinel, Black Star News, The Atlanta Post, and is a member of the Sigma Delta Chi Society of Professional Journalists (http://www.spj.org/). He’s also the author of "A Message From the Hood."Some of the greatest minds I’ve ever known held court while sitting on empty milk crates in the parking lots of ghetto liquor stores, while some of the weakest minds I’ve ever known roamed the halls of academia in pursuit of credentials over knowledge.Eric L. Wattreehttp://www.whohub.com/wattree

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